Myrto Kaouki: The Benaki Museum and the Leigh Fermor House: developments and plans
Patrick Leigh Fermor - To Greece with Love
A symposium dedicated to the traveller, writer, war hero, and friend of Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011).
On 26 and 27 January 2018 the University of Copenhagen was host to an international symposium, “Patrick Leigh Fermor: To Greece with Love”. The speakers included some of the leading specialists, including Patrick Leigh Fermor's biographer, the editor of his letters, and the expert on the kidnapping of the German General on Crete. The symposium also featured a thorough presentation by the Benaki Museum of the restoration work and future plans for the house of Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor in Kardamyli.
Η τελετή εγκαινίων της ανακαινισμένης Οικίας των Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor στην Καρδαμύλη
Η τελετή εγκαινίων της ανακαινισμένης Οικίας των Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor στην Καρδαμύλη
Charles Lock: Redeeming the Romaic: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Idea of Greece
Patrick Leigh Fermor - To Greece with Love
A symposium dedicated to the traveller, writer, war hero, and friend of Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011).
On 26 and 27 January 2018 the University of Copenhagen was host to an international symposium, “Patrick Leigh Fermor: To Greece with Love”. The speakers included some of the leading specialists, including Patrick Leigh Fermor's biographer, the editor of his letters, and the expert on the kidnapping of the German General on Crete. The symposium also featured a thorough presentation by the Benaki Museum of the restoration work and future plans for the house of Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor in Kardamyli.
Musical performance dedicated to Patrick Leigh Fermor and the members of the Cretan resistance.
With Paddy League (violin and Cretan boulgari), Dimitris Rapakousios (Cretan boulgari), Venizelos Leventogiannis (Cretan laouto)
Patrick Leigh Fermor - To Greece with Love
A symposium dedicated to the traveller, writer, war hero, and friend of Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011).
On 26 and 27 January 2018 the University of Copenhagen was host to an international symposium, “Patrick Leigh Fermor: To Greece with Love”. The speakers included some of the leading specialists, including Patrick Leigh Fermor's biographer, the editor of his letters, and the expert on the kidnapping of the German General on Crete. The symposium also featured a thorough presentation by the Benaki Museum of the restoration work and future plans for the house of Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor in Kardamyli.
Poul Joachim Stender: Kardamili as a time of gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor - To Greece with Love
A symposium dedicated to the traveller, writer, war hero, and friend of Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011).
On 26 and 27 January 2018 the University of Copenhagen was host to an international symposium, “Patrick Leigh Fermor: To Greece with Love”. The speakers included some of the leading specialists, including Patrick Leigh Fermor's biographer, the editor of his letters, and the expert on the kidnapping of the German General on Crete. The symposium also featured a thorough presentation by the Benaki Museum of the restoration work and future plans for the house of Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor in Kardamyli.
Το Σπίτι του Πάτρικ Λη Φέρμορ στην Καρδαμύλη.
Ένα απόσπασμα από το τηλεοπτικό magazino του Mega Ραντεβού για Σινεμά με παρουσιαστή τον Ορέστη Ανδρεαδάκη που αναφέρεται στην οικία του Πατρικ Λη Φέρμορ στην Καρδαμύλη.
Οικία Φέρμορ -Το σπίτι στην Καρδαμύλη που θεωρείται ένα από τα ωραιότερα στη χώρα
Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor, by Simon Fenwick and reviewed by Nicholas Hoare
As the first archivist to peruse and collate Paddy Leigh Fermor's papers (19 cartons strong), Simon Fenwick unearthed a tantalising glimpse of his enigmatic wife. Daughter of a wealthy First Lord of The Admiralty, but a firm believer in open marriage, this courageous young lady embarked on a colourful, amorous career that ended with a 40-year marriage to her singularly accomplished husband.
As kidnapper-in-chief of the ill-starred German General, Heinrich Kreipe, of which volumes continue to be written, Patrick Leigh Fermor lives timelessly on. His wife, however, does not; and in this revealing tome, her biographer lays bare the life of a brilliant, brainy beauty, whose reputation as a photographer, tabloid topic, society darling and sexual adventuress matched her husband's own reputation every step of the way. Pursued by her many admirers (Cyril Connolly, John Betjeman, the Lygons of Madresfield, and even the Maharajah of Jaipur, among them), Joan Leigh Fermor's posthumous reputation has been fully, colourfully - and deservedly - restored.
Patrick Leigh-Fermor~~Travellers Century
Benedict Allen follows in Leigh-Fermor's footsteps, and meets him at Kardamyli.
From The Sea To The Milky Way
From Abducting A General
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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2014 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture at Yale University: Patrick Leigh Fermor In Greece
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first travels in Greece took place before the outbreak of the Second World War, and he already spoke fluent Greek by the time he was parachuted into occupied Crete in 1942 to help the Cretan Resistance, which in May 1944 resulted in the abduction of a German general. Leigh Fermor settled in Greece in the 1960s, and lived there until his death in 2011. His books Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece and Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese are two of the best travel books in the English language. The talk is about his life and friends in Greece, and how much the country meant to him.
Patrick Leigh Fermor in Crete | International Lawrence Durrell Society
International Lawrence Durrell Society & Patrick Leigh Fermor Society visit Crete, following Paddy's paths... The meeting took place in Heraklion Crete in a historical farm...
John Julius Norwich - Patrick Leigh Fermor – traveller, adventurer and author (94/136)
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John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) was an English popular historian, travel writer and television personality. He is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine Empire and 'The Popes: A History'. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: But you have to read Paddy's books and read his letters to understand the extraordinary charm of this man. I mean, he seemed to be able to speak every language, he knew every poem, you know, Greek mythology... I don't know, he was impossible to fault, really. Anything in history. But this wonderful comic imagination that went with it, he was astonishing, and I think, you know, he was sacked from about four schools as a child, and then when he was 16 he decided to walk to Constantinople, which he did. Took him about four years, taking... the books he took with him were so extraordinary. I mean, one of them was a volume of Horace's 'Odes', and the 'Oxford Book of English Verse', and he had about six books that he took with him in his rucksack.
He lived on £5 a week sent to him by his mother to poste restantes. And he had one letter of introduction to some German baron, who lived in some castle, somewhere, so he went there. The German baron said, don't worry, all right, we'd better put him up for the night or something like that. It'll be rather a bore, but he's 17-year-old... and then, he was so fascinating and so fascinated with and went straight through to their library and discovered the most wonderful things and talked and talked and talked all night, this 17-year-old, you know, that they wouldn't let him go; he stayed for about three weeks. And then, of course, they wrote to the next castle down the road and said, this boy's absolutely extraordinary, do take him in for a couple of nights, because, he'll fascinate you. So Paddy did this thing, you know, and some nights, sleeping under a hedge, other nights in a huge four-poster bed in a 'Schloss'.
And he wrote... he should have written three books; he wrote two: 'A Time of Gifts' and 'Between the Woods and the Water', both of which must be... they are essential reading. They are dazzlingly brilliant and frightfully funny as well. And his last book, he really got a sort of writer's block on; it was terribly sad. He was always... he eventually, I think, realised that he was never going to be able to finish it. He was, by this time, in his late 80s. And he wrote endless bits and pieces for it, which were all cobbled together by my daughter, Artemis, and Colin Thubron, because Artemis wrote his biography, so she knew him really better than anybody. And she and Colin Thubron, after he died, found all the little bits of manuscripts and cobbled them together in another book called 'The Broken Road', which is not quite like the first two, obviously, but is... it's full of wonderful stuff, well worth reading. No, he was certainly the most remarkable man I think I've ever known in my life.
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Mani: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor
We drive to Gaitses, high on the western flank of the Taygettus range at the edge of the Koskarakas Gorge. Our pleasant, three hour easy walk follows the route taken by Paddy and Joan when they emerged from the overgrown gorge, after their momentous crossing of the mountain. We visit the ‘handsome old church’ on top of a knoll, and the neighbourhood where they sampled their first glass of Mani wine.
Next available departure: 13 - 23 October 2018
My Unique Lifetime Association With Patrick Leigh Fermor by Helias Doundoulakis ; Gabriella Gafni
Although many accounts have been written about Patrick Leigh Fermor, the great travel writer, prose poet, adventurer and Renaissance man, few are more deeply personal and direct than this narrative by Helias Doundoulakis, author of I Was Trained To Be a Spy, Books I & II. The German presence was still everywhere on the island of Crete in July, 1942 when Helias, a nineteen-year-old member of his brother George's famed resistance movement, went to the bus station in Chania Porte to greet Patrick Leigh Fermor (then known to the Greeks by his code name, “Mihalis”), who was scheduled to replace Captain Thomas Dunbabin of the Special Operations Executive (the “SOE”), the British equivalent of the United States Office of Strategic Services (the “OSS”), formed to assist local resistance movements fighting against the Axis powers. Filled with a spirit of adventure, young Helias hardly knew what to expect of the new captain, and was stunned when he encountered the charismatic Leigh Fermor, whose carefree - often dangerous - approach to life excited and intrigued the boy. What followed was a unique lifetime friendship that surpassed both men's expectations. Now, in his golden years, the author pays tribute to his memories of Leigh Fermor, and commemorates a time long gone, but never forgotten. Read this compelling account, and get to know two very remarkable figures and the heroes that supported the cause of freedom.
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Artemis Cooper: Road Block-Why Patrick Leigh Fermor’s 'Time of Gifts’ Trilogy took so long to write
Patrick Leigh Fermor - To Greece with Love
A symposium dedicated to the traveller, writer, war hero, and friend of Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011).
John Julius Norwich - The remarkable Patrick Leigh Fermor (92/136)
To listen to more of John Julius Norwich’s stories, go to the playlist:
John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) was an English popular historian, travel writer and television personality. He is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine Empire and 'The Popes: A History'. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: [CS] Do you want to tell me something about your friend, Patrick Leigh Fermor?
Patrick Leigh Fermor, known to all as Paddy. Paddy was the most extraordinary man I think I've ever known in my life for sheer erudition, on the one hand, and fun, on the other. I've never known a man, I think, really, with such extraordinary energy and imagination and fantasy and knowledge about everything, particularly... I first really got to know him... I'd met him on several occasions before, but he became a really bosom friend of my mother's. I mean, they corresponded. She was one of those three or four people that he corresponded with most. I've got endless letters. That pile over there is the second volume of his letters, which I've been going through, and the editor, Adam Sisman, is coming to pick them up this evening. I first really got to known him when we all went on a cruise. My mother was lent a little Greek caique, which was seating ten people, or not even I think, six. And this was in the late summer of 1955. I'd just arrived in Belgrade, but I managed to get a couple of weeks' leave. Anne and I drove down to Athens, Piraeus, and picked up this boat, and it was very small and pretty uncomfortable, but perfectly delightful. And Paddy and Joan were there, and two other great friends, Frank and Kitty Giles, and my mother and Anne and I. And we sailed for a fortnight around the Aegean. And it, I think it was one of the most informative and also formative fortnights of my life, because there was Paddy being huge fun, but also knowing absolutely... speaking bilingual Greek, of course, and talking about everywhere and talking about Greek life, talking about Greek history, talking about Byzantium, talking about the whole world. It was Paddy's world, really, and he talked about it magically and fascinatingly and gave me an insight into the Greek world, into the world of the Eastern Mediterranean, that has really changed my life. I mean, without it I think I would never have written three books on the history of Byzantium. I probably wouldn't have written my book on the Mediterranean. I don't know. But that's just a tribute to his knowledge and erudition.